Sep 10, 2019
In Australia and in many other parts of the world, consumers have enthusiastically embraced complementary and alternative medicines – but how reliable is the provenance of these products? Australian researchers have recently used novel techniques such as DNA...
Sep 6, 2019
A large open-label trial from Japan recently assigned 2236 patients with AF and IHD (percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) more than 1 year earlier or angiographically confirmed coronary artery disease not requiring...
Sep 5, 2019
Especially in nations with developed health systems, HIV infection is increasingly managed as a chronic medical condition requiring life-long drug therapy. Researchers have recently addressed the possibility that the number of antiretroviral drugs might be able to be...
Sep 4, 2019
Researchers have examined the impact of the services provided by pharmacists in the aged care setting. 52 studies addressing services provided for nearly 31,000 residents were included. Of note, pharmacist services reduced the mean number of falls (‐0.50; 95%CI: ‐0.79...
Sep 3, 2019
In a recent cross-sectional comparison, American researchers have investigated the incidence of paediatric cannabis exposure cases four years before, and then after medical marijuana legalisation (MML) in Massachusetts. From 2009-2016, 218 cannabis exposures for...
Sep 3, 2019
The European Society of Cardiology have just released 2019 guidelines relating to diabetes, pre-diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. There have been a range of changes relative to the previous guidelines released in 2013. Pharmacological highlights include: More...
